Deer Hunting I

By Mary Louise Schumacher

Published on: 7/2/2008

Will you indulge a somewhat ridiculous question?

What's with all of the deer in contemporary art thesedays anyway? Am I imagining things, or are they everywhere, from the walls of local galleries (this one, left, is by Eduardo Villanueva and is up at Paper Boat) to the glossy pages of art mags?

Though it won't require much real 'hunting,' I'm going to start targeting these does and bucks and and will share them here, to prove the point.

It's a nutty question, I know, but honestly -- what does it mean?

(Thanks to Lonnie Turner, a friend and colleague who, upon hearing my what's-with-that rant about deer art, suggested the title 'Deer Hunting' for this silly series of blog posts).